- chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose - an informal conversation
--1 is a kind of conversation
--1 has particulars:chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie Derived forms: verb confabulate3, verb confabulate2 - confabulation - (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
--2 is a kind of memory
Derived form: verb confabulate1